Architect Jobs in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -85 +12 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 358 1,185 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.04% 6.42% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.34% 6.74% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 243 732 331
10th Percentile £53,939 £56,809 £56,219
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,126 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% -2.34% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,125 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 10,724 17,569 14,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 95.13% 89.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,587 13,508 7,984
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -88 245 £60,000 -20.00% 132
Yorkshire -58 87 £83,750 +4.69% 72
North East +7 28 £65,000 -18.59% 35
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 134 (37.43%) Agile
2 125 (34.92%) ERP
3 121 (33.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 116 (32.40%) Manufacturing
5 114 (31.84%) CAD
5 114 (31.84%) PLM
6 111 (31.01%) Enterprise Architecture
7 109 (30.45%) Roadmaps
8 86 (24.02%) Social Skills
9 79 (22.07%) Business Strategy
10 76 (21.23%) TOGAF
11 74 (20.67%) Finance
12 68 (18.99%) SAP
12 68 (18.99%) Azure
13 64 (17.88%) JIRA
13 64 (17.88%) Strategic Roadmap
14 61 (17.04%) Confluence
15 58 (16.20%) Customer Requirements
15 58 (16.20%) Siemens
16 57 (15.92%) Business Analysis
16 57 (15.92%) DevOps
17 56 (15.64%) Demand Management
18 45 (12.57%) AWS
19 43 (12.01%) Firewall
20 42 (11.73%) Management Information System
21 40 (11.17%) Banking
22 39 (10.89%) Microservices
23 38 (10.61%) Microsoft
24 37 (10.34%) WAN
25 35 (9.78%) Cisco

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (17.04%) Confluence
2 4 (1.12%) SAS
3 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (18.99%) Azure
2 45 (12.57%) AWS
3 30 (8.38%) GCP
4 19 (5.31%) OCI
5 17 (4.75%) SaaS
6 14 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.68%) GitHub
9 6 (1.68%) Serverless
10 5 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.40%) PaaS
11 4 (1.12%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.01%) Firewall
2 37 (10.34%) WAN
3 32 (8.94%) LAN
4 14 (3.91%) VPN
5 9 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.23%) Network Security
7 7 (1.96%) DNS
7 7 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.84%) Junos
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.56%) DMZ
10 2 (0.56%) FCoE
10 2 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.56%) Multicast
10 2 (0.56%) NAS
10 2 (0.56%) SAN
10 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 13 (3.63%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.23%) Big Data
5 8 (2.23%) Power BI
6 7 (1.96%) MySQL
7 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.84%) Tableau
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.56%) Flink
9 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.28%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 64 (17.88%) JIRA
2 7 (1.96%) Git
3 6 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) GitLab
4 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 116 (32.40%) Manufacturing
2 86 (24.02%) Social Skills
3 74 (20.67%) Finance
4 40 (11.17%) Banking
5 25 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.51%) Law
10 5 (1.40%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.12%) Back Office
11 4 (1.12%) Legal
11 4 (1.12%) Retail
12 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Local Government
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.07%) .NET
2 5 (1.40%) REST
3 4 (1.12%) Middleware
4 3 (0.84%) Kafka
4 3 (0.84%) LDAP
5 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.56%) React
5 2 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.56%) SOAP
6 1 (0.28%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.28%) EDI
6 1 (0.28%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.28%) jQuery
6 1 (0.28%) JSON
6 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.73%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.94%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.59%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.75%) Operational Technology
5 9 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.96%) SCADA
6 7 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.68%) Social Media
7 6 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.12%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.12%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.12%) NHS
9 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.03%) Windows
2 9 (2.51%) Linux
3 6 (1.68%) Windows Vista
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Solaris
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (37.43%) Agile
2 125 (34.92%) ERP
3 114 (31.84%) CAD
3 114 (31.84%) PLM
4 111 (31.01%) Enterprise Architecture
5 109 (30.45%) Roadmaps
6 79 (22.07%) Business Strategy
7 76 (21.23%) TOGAF
8 64 (17.88%) Strategic Roadmap
9 58 (16.20%) Customer Requirements
10 57 (15.92%) Business Analysis
10 57 (15.92%) DevOps
11 56 (15.64%) Demand Management
12 39 (10.89%) Microservices
13 35 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (9.22%) Risk Management
15 32 (8.94%) Presales
16 29 (8.10%) Security Architecture
17 28 (7.82%) Information Security
17 28 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.98%) SQL
2 19 (5.31%) Java
3 15 (4.19%) Python
4 11 (3.07%) C#
5 6 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.40%) Bicep
7 4 (1.12%) R
8 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.56%) Scala
9 2 (0.56%) SOQL
10 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) VB
10 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (33.80%) BPSS Clearance
2 32 (8.94%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (7.26%) Degree
4 25 (6.98%) CCNA
4 25 (6.98%) JNCIA
5 21 (5.87%) TOGAF Certification
6 19 (5.31%) CISSP
7 17 (4.75%) Security Cleared
8 15 (4.19%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.19%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.79%) DBS Check
10 9 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.51%) CISM
10 9 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.68%) CEH
12 6 (1.68%) CISA
13 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.59%) GDPR
1 20 (5.59%) NIST
2 19 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.35%) NCSC
4 9 (2.51%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.68%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.40%) QA
7 4 (1.12%) Basel II
7 4 (1.12%) Basel III
7 4 (1.12%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (1.12%) IFRS
7 4 (1.12%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (4.75%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.56%) KVM
4 2 (0.56%) NFS
4 2 (0.56%) SRDF
4 2 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.56%) Xen
5 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.91%) Terraform
3 5 (1.40%) Ansible
4 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.28%) Istio
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (18.99%) SAP
2 58 (16.20%) Siemens
3 38 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 35 (9.78%) Cisco
5 31 (8.66%) Oracle
6 30 (8.38%) Juniper
7 28 (7.82%) Aruba
8 27 (7.54%) Fortinet
9 22 (6.15%) Palo Alto
10 13 (3.63%) Google
11 11 (3.07%) VMware
12 7 (1.96%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.40%) Databricks
15 4 (1.12%) Meraki
16 2 (0.56%) EMC
16 2 (0.56%) F5
16 2 (0.56%) NetApp
16 2 (0.56%) Sparx
16 2 (0.56%) Workday